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[technoir]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake

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The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at 8:50:38 a.m. West Asia Standard Time (Pakistan Standard Time) and 9:20:38 a.m. (India Standard Time) (03:50:38 UTC), on October 8, 2005 with the epicenter in the Pakistan-administered region of the disputed territory of Kashmir. It registered 7.6 on the Moment magnitude scale making it a major earthquake similar in intensity to the famous 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Initially, official Pakistani estimates were that the earthquake has killed over 42,000 people and injured over 65,000. [1] However, as most of the affected areas are in mountainous regions and have been rendered inaccessible by landslides that have blocked the roads, the death toll is estimated to be much higher. At least 2.5 million people have been left homeless.


So why is it we do not get the hundreds of posts concerning this? Do we just care less if it is on the other side of the world? Are we simply just numb? Is there a point when the sheer level of disaster after disaster make the names just bleed together? I know I feel the same sence of powerless frustration watching that news as i did watching the news from New Orleans. If your one who believes in prayer say a few for those poor souls.

just my thoughts.

Comments

[outlawcoon.livejournal.com]

My posts after Katrina had to do with frustration with our government's response (which doesn't apply here) and with a fundraiser (which got very little response from my friends list) for the Red Cross.

Saying that we care less is antagonistic, but I guess you could express it that way if you wanted. I would have said rather than the horror strikes closer to home when it's....well, home.

It's also been just a terrible year for natural disasters. And those people are in my prayers.

[technoir.livejournal.com]

It was not an attempt at being antagonistic. For the most part I guess I was just expressing my internal dialog. If nothing I think I am the one i am wondering about. I like to think most of the people on my friends list are the sort to keep the people suffering in the world in mind. I was just really just expressing my conciderations is all.

[outlawcoon.livejournal.com]

I can see that, now that you've said it. I think I have a reaction to the phrase 'care less' because of the often-flippant or angry 'I couldn't care less.'

(Or the misused 'I could care less,' but that's a whole different post topic.)

[twelveoaks.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't respond to your fund raiser post, btw. I had intended to at least comment. By the time I saw it I had already made donations elsewhere, but it was a good thing to remind people, even if they didn't specifically give through your resource.

[outlawcoon.livejournal.com]

The thing that was so puzzling was that the linkers didn't have to give; the post was a commitment for /me/ to give. (Though I did give more for people that continued the meme and therefore donated themselves.)

Ah well. I got to nearly my maximum anyway. It was just a puzzlingly small response. I wrote it off to possible misunderstanding and disaster overload.